14 April 2014: Kunming connection

During the first week after the flight disappearance, an email was sent to journalists, supposedly from representatives from the Uighur separatist movement, claiming for responsibility for the Malaysia Airlines flight’s disappearance.The emails were dismissed as opportunistic and troublemaking.

Some investigators nevertheless linked MH370 to the 2014 Kunming attack, also called the Kunming massacre. This was a terrorist attack in the Chinese city of Kunming, Yunnan, on 1 March 2014. The incident, targeted against civilians, left 29 civilians and 4 perpetrators dead with more than 140 others injured.

In our previous update it was noted, without a logical connection, that Xining Air Base is located just outside the 8:11 ping ring, within 15 km from it.

Here we point out that Kunming, in fact, is also located just outside the 8:11 ping ring, also within 15 km from it. There is another air base, Kunming Air Base, nearby. A snapshot from Google Earth (KML file courtesy of Duncan Steel) with the white line indicating the 8:11 ping ring is below.

While Xining Air Base was just an abstract possibility, Kunming Air Base can be connected logically: assuming hijacking of MH370 with an attempt to reach Kunming, it may be suggested that the plane was forced to land at Kunming Air Base (shown below), with complicated negotiations ongoing.

This, of course, remains a speculative hypothesis. Another air base, Yuanmou Air Base, is also located near the ping ring, but on the inside.

A possible path that follows the border between India and Myanmar (Burma), as suggested by the main thread of the theory, and continues curving along mountains ranges, is shown below.